“The deepest pain I ever felt was denying my own feelings to make everyone else comfortable.”

“I am a lover of words and tragically beautiful things, poor timing and longing, and all things with soul, and I wonder if that means I am entirely broken, or if those are the things that have been ...”

“And that is the nature of us poets and whores, to make things hard: dicks, choices... life.”

“I hold you in the safest place I keep. Somewhere between memories and scars.”

“I hope that someday when I am gone, someone, somewhere, picks my soul up off of these pages and thinks, "I would have loved her.”

“She will blaze through you like a gypsy wildfire. Igniting you soul and dancing in its flames. And when she is gone, the smell of her smoke will be the only thing left to soothe you.”

“Open your mind a little, don't believe everything you hear, see or read, the world is so caught up in trying to avoid the topics that matter that you'll lose yourself trying to become like it.”

“She would only let you know her, little by little ~ never giving too much away but willing to share the small parts that make up her life, she falls slowly like that ~ love isn't a maybe thing in h...”

“It almost occurred; It almost got hold of my purity, Just as it headed for the war within my being,I fed it a light so bright; It thought it almost had control of me. Depression is just a dis-ease,...”

“We must become reacquainted with our true human selves.”

“Reach deep within, and reconnect with the essence of your being.”

“I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image.”

“Sometimes you have to let go of a career you love, a beloved home, or a loved one. Take time to grieve a loss of this nature. If you find yourself disoriented, consider surrounding yourself with pe...”

“Sometimes life events break your heart. Even as you grieve, allow light to seep through the cracks, uplift, and illuminate a healing. Baby turtles emerge from the cracking of shells; new life can b...”

“When you've been lost as I have," he once said, "you get good at finding your way home.”